"Searching For A Gem"

Bob Dylan's Officially
Released
Rarities and Obscurities

All the songs listed in the Official
Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these
alphabetical pages.A-EF-JK-OP-ST-Z

As can be seen, which song was the A- or B-side of this single depended upon
the country!

This page contains all 1966 7" singles/EPs with One Of Must Know (Sooner
Or Later). It has been separated from 1966 because
of the length of that page.
"Blonde On Blonde" album releases with rarities and the
major 1966 Dylan 7" singles/EPs with rarities are now listed here:

If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to
existing entries, please let me know!
Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities -
see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the
dealers on my Trading page for assistance!

Revised:
01 January, 2018.

"One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)"/"Queen Jane
Approximately" - mono 7"
promo and commercial singles, Columbia (USA/Canada), 14 Feb 1966:This single came out well before the release of the Blonde On Blonde
album! Which song was the A- or B-side of this single depended upon the
country, but One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) was a previously unknown
song, and Queen Jane Approximately from the 1965 mono Highway 61 Revisited
album would already have been known to fans.

Columbia acetates (USA):

Thanks for Gerd Rundel for finding three acetates
of this song for sale on eBay in Oct 2016. They come in buff sleeves with
writing in grease pencil in the centres. All have "CO 89216" written on the
sleeves at top left and "Bob Johnston" at top right.

R-0050 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) -
unfaded mono version (4:49) - JZSP-113096, also on mono releases of Blonde On
Blonde - see here
(R-0050 is unfaded compared with the "standard"
stereo mix, the Mastersound gold CD of Blonde On Blonde restored
the original length - info from Roger Ford. See here
for more details)

As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.

R-0050-2 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) -
unfaded mono version (4:49)
As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.

The other side of this single was Queen Jane
Approximately from the mono Highway 61 Revisited album. This has matrix
number JZSP-113095 and was the A-side in several countries. (Normally the lower
matrix number is the A-side, and Queen Jane Approximately was JZSP-113095 while
One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) was JZSP-113096.

Columbia/Legacy 88875124402-(SV)5 (USA), 6 Nov 2015:

Columbia/Legacy 8887512440211 (USA) - photo from
bobdylan.com

The 18CD Collector's Edition of The Bootleg Series
Vol. 12 - Bob Dylan 1965-1966 The Cutting Edge includes nine of the
mono 7" singles released in 1965 and 1966 with new picture sleeves and a
"leopard-skin" spindle with which to play the singles. Columbia 4-43541 from
Feb 1966 is
included as Columbia/Legacy 88875124402-(SV)5 with the US commercial single
labels. The front is from the Japanese single release CBS LL-919-C
below, the rear is a curious hybrid of Japanese and German single rear
sleeves.

There are at least three releases of this box containing five current Columbia 7" singles:
the second release shown here has the same title
as this with catalogue number CSP 120-1325, with orange
text, not pink as here, with a different Dylan single, I Want You/Just Like Tom
Thumb's Blues (live), listed here. Manuel
García Jara points out that the single selection in these boxes was completely
random, so there is no point in buying one unless you know it contains a Dylan
single!

R-0050-3 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) -
unfaded mono version (4:49)As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.

This box with pink text has Columbia 4-43541, One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or
Later) c/w Queen Jane Approximately. Hans Seegers' box also contains singles by
The Creatures and Little Jimmy Dickens, but two of the five singles are missing. The
remaining singles all have "PHILCO" stamped on their labels. Thanks to
Gerd Rundel for finding the box on eBay illustrated with different singles:

R-0050-4 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) -
unfaded mono version (4:49)
As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.

This is definitely the A-side of the UK release! The other side of this single was also Queen Jane
Approximately from the mono Highway 61 Revisited album. Anton Wennbom's
commercial orange label copy has a push-out centre, but Manuel's copy has a
solid centre.

"Queen
Jane Approximately"/"One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)"- mono 7"
singles, CBS 2053 (NL), May
1966:This date may be wrong, because the later Dutch single CBS 2307, Rainy Day Women
#12 & 35/Pledging My Time was definitely released in May 1966 (it entered the
Dutch charts on 21 May 1966). Tom Willems says the book "Hypnotist Collectors" by Jean-Louis Dréau and
Robert Schlockoff (Média Presse, France, 1989) gives the release date of CBS
2053 as 8 Jul 1966. CBS 2053 did not enter
the Dutch charts, so they're no help. Tom says another source gives the Dutch
release date as after 12 Aug 1966, and definitely after CBS 2307!

CBS 2053 (NL) - front scan by Hans Seegers (both variants)

The Dutch single had a picture
sleeve, but the A- and B-sides were reversed, so that Queen Jane
Approximately was the A-side! This was the first Dutch single to have a sleeve
with a different rear showing pictures of contemporary CBS Holland singles.
"SUCCESS" on the rear sleeve is misspelled "SUCCES". The Dutch
single has two label variations, the first shows the playing speed as "45 rpm"
and the second as "45 RPM", placed slightly differently.

Thanks
to Francisco Lima for information and to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

Like the Dutch single above, the Swedish single had the A-
and B-sides were reversed, so that Queen Jane Approximately was the A-side. The
Danish single had One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) as the A-side.

Information from Hans Seegers: "Until 1973 all Scandinavian releases were
pressed at the PolyGram pressing plant in Oslo, but up to 1968 the CBS companies
in Norway, Denmark and Sweden printed their own picture sleeves. The labels of
these Scandinavian singles are therefore completely identical, and all have 710
in the matrix number."

These singles had no picture sleeve.
The length of the A-side is shown as 4:55. To the right of the centre hole
the A-side has "CONTROL" while the B-side has the Allan's logo.

Manuel García Jara has a copy of the single where there
is a narrower gap between the central CBS logo and the song titles, especially
on the B-side. The Allan's logo on the B-side is equidistant between the
catalogue number and the matrix number - on the B-side of Hans' copy it is
lower.

Thanks to Hans Seegers and Manuel García Jara for
information and scans.

"One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)"/"Queen
Jane Approximately"- mono 7"
singles, CBS SSC.654 (South Africa/Rhodesia), May
1966:Scans of the South African release required! It does not have the
distinctive triangular centre of the Rhodesian single.

The first Rhodesian release illustrated came in the same "CBS Seven
Single" sleeve as used in South Africa. Amazingly, it belonged to a woman
called Rosemary Burgoyne, whom I knew when she and her husband lived in
Didsbury in Manchester in the late 1960s! They subsequently moved to South
Africa, where she still lives, although her husband has now died. The second
Rhodesian single comes in a unique yellow/brown "Seven Single" sleeve with text
in English and Afrikaans.

Thanks to Ed Ricardo, Tom Willems and Jim Siddy for information and scans.

"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - 7" mono EP, CBS 5660
(France/Spain), May
1966:For a more detailed entry on the variants of these two EPs, see
here.

R-0050-5 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - unfaded
mono version, from mono release of Blonde On
Blonde - see Mono Album Releases
As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.

Note the unique languette or index tab on the French EP - for more
information about languettes, see 1965.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

"One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)"/"Queen
Jane Approximately"- mono 7"
promo and commercial singles, CBS LL-919-C (Japan), 1 Jun 1966:This single is very rare indeed, and the promo version is almost impossible
to find!

CBS LL-919-C (Japan) - front of insert scan by Hans Seegers

R-0050-6 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) -
unfaded mono version (4:49)
As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.

The other side of this single was Queen Jane
Approximately from the mono Highway 61 Revisited album (4:55). The promo
release has white CBS labels with the date "'66-6-1" (1 Jun 1966). The commercial release
has orange CBS labels. There was a four-page insert inside the generic
sleeve with release-specific artwork. The promo release came in the green
Columbia sleeve (the record itself is "CBS").

For illustrations of the generic 1966 Japanese sleeves provided
by Hans Seegers see 7" Singles Sleeves.

Various Artists - "This Is Folk Rock Vol. 2" - stereo vinyl LP, CBS YS-665-C (Japan), Jul 1966:Despite the fact that Bob always rejected claims he invented or ever played
"folk rock", CBS insisted in sticking that label on him! For the first
album in the This Is Folk Rock series, see International
Compilations: Various Artist Albums 1962-69.

CBS YS-665-C (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers

Side 1 had a rarity:

R-0051 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - single edit, 2:26
(stereo)

Side 2 had One Of Must Know (Sooner Or Later) but it was the regular stereo album
version, not the edited version (R-0380, 3:07) or the unfaded version (R-0050,
4:49) - for both of these see above. I also misreported that Side 2 of this
album had the stereo version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your
Window? - this is now confirmed to be the "standard" mono version,
as found on Biograph (1985, remastered CD
release 1997) and
the 2000/2001 Essential Bob Dylan/Ultimate Bob Dylan compilations. The only
occurrence of the stereo version is on a CBS stereo acetate, see
1965. The superb stereo version is in circulation amongst
collectors on several bootleg albums and should be released by Columbia.
(The CBS Spanish 7" EP and singles released in 1972
are now proved to have the track in mispressed mono, not stereo.)

The other tracks on the album are from the Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, Chad
& Jill Stuart and Chad & Jeremy.

R-0050-7 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) -
unfaded mono version (4:49), from mono release of Blonde On
Blonde - see here and
Mono Album Releases
As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.

R-0050-8 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - unfaded
mono version (4:49), from mono release of Blonde On
Blonde - see here and
Mono Album Releases
As Blonde On
Blonde was released on 2CDs as part of the Oct 2010 9CD release The
Original Mono Recordings, R-0050 is no longer a rarity.